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Best Diablo 4 Spiritborn builds - Best Skills and Skill Trees

The new Spiritborn class is a force to be reckoned with, here's how to create their best builds!

A Spiritborn warrior posing with a glaive in Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred.
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Hailing from the wilds of Nahantu, the Spiritborn is the new class introduced to Diablo 4 with the release of the Vessel of Hatred expansion. Wielding the primal power of either the mighty Gorilla, fearsome Jaguar, majestic Eagle or scuttling Centipede, the Spiritborn can fit into a variety of powerful archetypes.

However, at this stage in the life cycle of Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion, 2 of these archetypes seem to stand out from the rest: the explosive DPS potential of the electrifying lightning-damage Eagle and the huge damage-over-time secreted by the poisonous Centipede.

The new activities and story missions in Vessel of Hatred are a lot more difficult than much of the base game, so it’s a good thing the Spiritborn is up to the task!

Here’s a rundown of how to craft the best Spiritborn builds in Diablo 4, as well as all of the best Skills to choose when constructing them!

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Is the Spiritborn good in Diablo 4?

With the release of the Vessel of Hatred expansion, the Spiritborn is currently considered the best class in Diablo 4, thanks to its huge damage potential and versatility.

This makes the Spiritborn the perfect class to take on both the new story campaign and new activities like slaying Realmwalkers and taking on their Seething Realms.

Diablo 4 | Best Spiritborn Builds and Skills

If you’re planning on swamping the world of Sanctuary with poison, the best Spiritborn build to craft is a Centipede build focused on Touch of Death, or more specifically the upgraded version Poised Touch of Death.

After a puny initial sting, Touch of Death deals a hefty dose of poison damage and makes the target explode into a swarm of insects, damaging other foes around them. What makes this truly great however, is when you apply the Poised Touch of Death upgrade, this replaces your Core Skill and consumes Vigor with no Cooldown.

Now with a good basic skill to start up your Vigor generation - and the easy-to-miss Vigorous Skill from the Skill Tree - you can turn Touch of Death into your main method of dealing damage.

However, there are still a couple more steps you need to take to make this build truly overpowered. First, you need to unlock the Insatiable Aspect from one of the dungeons in the new region of Nahantu. When equipped, this aspect causes the swarms created by Touch of Death to explode as you summon more than 3 at a time, dealing a huge amount of damage.

A Spiritborn warrior summoning the primal spirit of a jungle centipede in Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred.
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This is great on its own, but can be sped up even more by grabbing the Centipede Key Passive at the end of the Skill Tree, Noxious Resonance. This causes your poison damage to be applied instantly on critical hits, not just dealing more damage more quickly, but removing the need to wait 9 seconds for your Touch of Death swarms to be created.

Or if you’re interested in a more immediate build with less set up, the lightning-damage Eagle build is based almost completely around the Quill Volley Skill, which is found on just the second node on the Skill Tree.

This is the Spiritborn’s resource consuming Skill, similar to Upheaval for Barbarians or Bone Spear for a Necromancer. So basically all you need to do is prioritise Vigor generation and damage on Eagle skills - nice and easy.

But since you need to fill out the rest of your hotbar, there are still some other great Eagle Skills - even if they don’t quite stack up to the unbelievable power of Quill Volley. It’s really easy to miss the extremely good combo of Measured Vortex and Auspicious from the third and fourth Skill Tree nodes respectively.

This combo gives you a passive barrier which can total as much as 20% of your maximum health and both powers Vortex up by 300% and knocks enemies caught by it down for 3 seconds. Not only does this really conveniently focus enemies in one place to be hit by Quill Volley, but it’s amazing crowd-control and gives you vital breathing room to build up some Vigor in a pinch.

Diablo 4 | Spiritborn Skill Tree

For the Spiritborn’s poison Centipede build, you can follow this Skill Tree:

  1. Rock Splitter
  2. Enhanced Rock Splitter
  3. Sharp Rock Splitter
  4. Stinger
  5. Enhanced Stinger
  6. Rampant Stinger
  7. Vigorous
  8. Vigorous +1
  9. Vigorous + 2
  10. Balanced Exertion
  11. Balanced Exertion +1
  12. Balanced Exertion +2
  13. Scourge
  14. Enhanced Scourge
  15. Reinforced Scourge
  16. Endurance
  17. Touch of Death
  18. Enhanced Touch of Death
  19. Poised Touch of Death
  20. Ravenous
  21. Ravenous +1
  22. Ravenous +2
  23. Oppressive
  24. Oppressive +1
  25. Oppressive +2
  26. The Devourer
  27. Harmonious Devourer
  28. Exalted Devourer
  29. Resolution
  30. Sustenance
  31. Intricacy
  32. Intricacy +1
  33. Intricacy +2
  34. Noxious Resonance
  35. Soar
  36. Enhanced Soar
  37. Measured Soar
  38. Refund Rampant Stinger, Enhanced Stinger and Stinger and get Ravager, Enhanced Ravager and Measured Ravager
  39. Touch of Death +1
  40. Touch of Death +2
  41. Touch of Death +3
  42. Touch of Death +4
  43. Rock Splitter +1
  44. Rock Splitter +2
  45. Rock Splitter +3
  46. Rock Splitter +4
  47. The Devourer +1
  48. The Devourer +2
  49. The Devourer +3
  50. The Devourer +4
  51. Mirage
  52. Mirage +1
  53. Mirage +2
  54. Endurance +1
  55. Endurance +2
  56. Antivenom
  57. Nourishment
  58. Nourishment +1
  59. Nourishment +2
  60. Patient Guard

Alternatively, for the lightning-damage Eagle build, you can follow this Skill Tree:

  1. Thunderspike
  2. Enhanced Thunderspike
  3. Quill Volley
  4. Enhanced Quill Volley
  5. Advantageous Quill Volley
  6. Accelerated Thunderspike
  7. Vortex
  8. Enhanced Vortex
  9. Quill Volley +1
  10. Quill Volley +2
  11. Quill Volley +3
  12. Quill Volley +4
  13. Patient Guard
  14. Auspicious
  15. Measured Vortex
  16. Auspicious +1
  17. Auspicious +2
  18. Brilliance
  19. Acceleration
  20. Brilliance +1
  21. Brilliance +2
  22. Acceleration +1
  23. Acceleration +2
  24. Vigorous
  25. Velocity
  26. Velocity +1
  27. Velocity +2
  28. Vigorous +1
  29. Vigorous +2
  30. The Seeker
  31. Harmonious Seeker
  32. Exalted Seeker
  33. Ravager
  34. Vital Strikes
  35. Focal Point
  36. Apex
  37. Apex +1
  38. Apex +2
  39. Diminishment
  40. Diminishment +1
  41. Diminishment +2
  42. Enhanced Ravager
  43. Measured Ravager
  44. Counterattack
  45. Counterattack Enhancement
  46. Reinforced Counterattack
  47. Vortex +1
  48. Vortex +2
  49. Vortex +3
  50. Vortex +4
  51. The Seeker +1
  52. The Seeker +2
  53. The Seeker +3
  54. The Seeker +4
  55. Thunderspike +1
  56. Thunderspike +2
  57. Thunderspike +3
  58. Thunderspike +4
  59. Bastion
  60. Bastion +1

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